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This report discusses SAB Millers work on ‘enterprise development’ which has three main strands: supporting smallholder farmers agriculture supply chain; investing in the value chain; and developing entrepreneurs in communities.

This report about a private sector mapping project takes a closer look at the current motives, strategies, incentives, obstacles, and benefits as perceived by firms to enter untapped majority markets. For this purpose, 521 interviews in thirteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) were conducted.

This report explores approaches to building capacity at the local supplier level; it illustrates initiatives that encourage consumer demand for more sustainable solutions, and it discusses the challenges facing supply chains in the face of competition for limited natural resources. It proposes a ladder of business approaches to the integration of sustainability value within supply chain thinking and identifies three main ‘steps’: Incremental, Strategic and Transformational.

This case study assesses Unilever's socio-economic footprint in South Africa; it reviews the company's impact on the growth, development, society and environment in the country. It outlines that the company's direct impacts are those felt by its 3,000 suppliers and their 20,000 employees due to the company’s purchases of goods and services from them; and its indirect impacts include those felt by its suppliers’ suppliers owing to the orders they receive.

Este documento presenta una guía introductoria hacia las cadenas de valor, su funcionamiento, composición, y sus razones de éxito o fracaso. Esto lo hace mediante cuatro casos del sector agrícola, departamental y de servicios.